tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jun 20 14:12:16 2009
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Re: Once more into the ship in which I fled
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Once more into the ship in which I fled
- Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:10:43 -0700 (PDT)
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--- On Sat, 6/20/09, David Trimboli <[email protected]> wrote:
> Terrence Donnelly wrote:
> > Not to be a contrarian or anything, but what about the
> proverb
> > {meQtaHbogh qachDaq Suv qoH neH}? I know MO originally
> said he
> > couldn't make relative clauses work as anything but
> subjects or
> > objects, except here he did.
>
> He couldn't make the head noun of a relative clause be
> anything other
> than the subject or object *of the relative clause*, not of
> the main
> sentence.
>
Now this I can agree wholeheartedly with. But is it then possible that the head noun can be either the subject, object, or _any Type-5 suffixed noun_ to the main verb?
Which wouldn't have any answers for the "ship in which I fled", since the head noun is not the subject or object of the relative verb.
-- ter'eS